Legal Research

Yahoo filters (censors) the Pirate Bay
Torrent Freak blogs about Yahoo's decision to exclude the Pirate Bay from their search results: Filtering or blocking the Pirate Bay is beginning to become a trend. Little over a week ago, a Danish court ordered the ISP ?Tele2? to block its customers access to The Pirate Bay...

Acting Against ACTA by Professor Alan Story
?If it is a sin for the poor to steal from the rich, it must be a much bigger sin for the rich to steal from the poor. Don?t rich countries pirate poor countries? best scientists, engineers, doctors, nurses and programmers? When global corporations come to operate in the Philippines, don?t they pirate the best people from local firms? If it is bad for poor countries like ours to pirate the intellectual property of rich countries, isn?t it a lot worse for rich countries like the US to pirate our intellectuals?...

Schwedischer Pirate-Bay heuert bei Warner an
Vor dem schwedischen Prozess gegen vier Verantwortliche der Torrent-Website The Pirate Bay ziehen die Beklagten die Ermittlungsarbeit der Polizei in Frage. Schwedischen Medienberichten zufolge soll der Leiter der Vorermittlungen gegen Pirate Bay seinen Posten bei der Polizei inzwischen gegen einen neuen Job bei Warner Bros Schweden getauscht haben...

SVT Officially Apologizes to The Pirate Bay Over TV Debate Fiasco
It may be one of the biggest P2P media disasters this year and now the media outlet responsible for a debate between The Pirate Bay has apologized for the incident. SVT blames an internal communication error...

Talk Like a Tort Pirate
Still can't really type well, but I can at least urge you all to celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day. From last year's post on the subject: Some suggested terms: Res ipsa loquitARRRR! Matey, ye caused a batt'ry when ye...

Pirate Bay Captain Speaks Out on TV for the First Time
Gottfried Svartholm Warg of The Pirate Bay, the world's largest BitTorrent tracker site, grants a rare interview to "Russia Today." There's a new clip up on YouTube taken from a recent news report by Russia Today about The Pirate Bay and its recent legal woes involving charges of copyright infringement by Swedish authorities...

Media/Telecom
consumer rights involving print, radio, television, video, DVD, video games, and mobile telephones.

Nintendo Control
Video game giant to pay $21 million settlement in patent lawsuit.

Video Technology
RealNetworks to pay $533,500 settlement in licensing lawsuit.

Video Taping Arrest
Harris County pays wrongfully arrested brothers $1.7 million civil rights settlement.